Breaking Kayfabe

Growing up in a council house in Leeds, Wes Brown dreamed of becoming a ''real'' man like the ones in his ex-pro wrestler dad''s tales of heroes and villains, gods and monsters. The only problem was he never told him they were fake. In this modern-day Pinocchio story, Wes follows in his father''s footsteps in the hope of coming to terms with the fictions that make a man.